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Show w CC : ? ft Architect/Builder: Building Materials: Io8 Building Type/Style: vernacular ----------•----------------------------------•-----------------------:-------------------- Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) I oc This granary presents something of an historical problem to the researcher looking for direct antecedents in Europe or the Eastern U.S. The granary has a gable door. has circular-sawed logs, and a tight fitting full-dovetail corner notch covered with wood molding. The full-dovetail joint is the most difficult of all corner-timbering techniques and has parallels.in both the Scandinavian and Anglo-American (from German) traditions. Full-dovetailing is known_ in_Pennsylvania and through the Valley of Virginia but was not common in the upland South nor in the upper Midwest (Kniffen and Glassie,p.61). Full dovetailing was a late comer to Scandinavia-: but became increasingly popular in the late Eighteenth and Nineteeth-century (Erixon,p.32). The sawed technique is most definitely Scandinavian as is the tendency to fit "the logs tightly together without use of chinking. At the present it becomes difficult to determine whether or not this full-dovetai technique represents a northern-European transplant to Utah, The evidence seems to point to this possibility. Statement of Historical Significance: >; O yj I D D GJ D D Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce D D D D D Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D D D Q D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation D D n D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation The granary contributes to the visual historical nature of the town and its construction technique can help determine extent of Scandinavian influences in the town. |
